Sat Quotes
1126 Sat quotes by 814 unique authors
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She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap and made itself comfortable. The light that…
— Neil Gaiman
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A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice,' Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's…
— Nora Roberts
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Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of…
— Chinua Achebe
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Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The other day I found her passport in her drawer when I was putting away my dad's laundered handkerchiefs. I wish I hadn't. For the…
— Miriam Toews
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Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen…
— Khalil Gibran
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When she faced the noise, she found the mayor’s wife in a brand-new bathrobe and slippers. On the breast pocket of the robe sat an…
— Markus Zusak
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What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’....…
— Maya Angelou
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We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the…
— C.S. Lewis
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When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in…
— Markus Zusak
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Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point…
— Jodi Picoult
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I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart--do this feeling that over my shoulder…
— Frederick Exley
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This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the…
— Carson McCullers
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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her,…
— Markus Zusak
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When she awoke there was a melody in her head she could not identify or recall ever hearing before. 'Perhaps I made it up,' she…
— Toni Morrison
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He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far…
— Patrick O'Brian
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They rode on and the sun in the east flushed pale streaks of light and then a deeper run of color like blood seeping up…
— Cormac McCarthy
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As I sat in the hot, salty water, I thought, 'No wonder Mr. Bubble always gives me a urinary tract infection and hives.' Mr. Bubble…
— Augusten Burroughs
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When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him…
— Franz Kafka
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The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called…
— Lewis Carroll
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the…
— Jodi Picoult
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When we sat down to eat I took inventory of the people in the room, and the remnants of my good mood evaporated when I…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it,…
— Alan Moore
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